Note 5 — Chapter IX · The Conduct of the War
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“On April 10, 1899, General Delgado wrote that, benignity having failed, rigorous methods would be used to enforce collections and that if the people did not pay—
“‘I shall, with great pain, see myself under the necessity of withdrawing all my forces to the mountains and leaving them [the pueblos] to the fate which God will decide upon,’ which of course meant that he would leave them to the mercy of the bandits who stood ready to descend upon them.”—P.I.R., B., 4.
“This threat was not an idle one.”—Taylor, 67 HS. E-L.